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*EDIT I'm talking about admech battle line here, can't change title unfortunately

I collect admech, knights and orks, so I've been keeping a finger on the pulse of the new ork datasheet reveals. A lot of the ork datasheets are increasing in durability: Nazdreg wears mega armour and he's T7 when mega armour was T6 before; nobz now have 3W instead of 2; killa kans went up to T7 from T6; ghazghull went up to T10 from T6, went from 10W to 16W and now has Lone Op; the stompa now has a 5+ invuln. A lot of the Orks are also a lot more killy than before, which leads me to believe that as GW's favourites the Space marines will increase in durability for parity with the orks, with marines going up to T5, and terminators and gravis going to T6 and T7 respectively.

If that happened, T4 would open up to factions that are tougher than guardsmen but less tough than marines, like admech and sisters of battle. Granted it's a big reach but I don't think it's impossible that many of the factions could be scaled up in durability and damage this edition.

Hello Massives. Little bit of preamble: so I was having a discussion with my mate about Superman 2025 and why I don't think it's very good. Amongst other things, I said that Superman has a strangely defined sense of morality, and cited the scene where he talks with Lois Lane after Lex Luthor has turned the city against him. In the background we can see some big alien monster being fought by the Justice Gang; I think the choice to talk with Lois instead of saving people unintentionally frames Superman negatively since it shows that Superman will choose not to try when he's not being viewed positively by the people of Metropolis. This is a bad scene because it characterises Superman in a manner opposite to intention.

Now onto the amble. To try and better explain my Superman point I compared it to a good example of the same general situation, since I think the characterisation was very intentional. In S1Ep4 of Invincible, Nolan is in Italy with Debbie and a dragon attacks the city behind him. Debbie freaks out and tells Nolan to do something, he continues his conversation unfazed and ends by saying “let Cecil earn his paycheck”. What I got from the scene was that Nolan was completely willing to potentially sacrifice lives since he didn't fully value humanity, and that this was foreshadowing the full extent of his Viltrumite aloofness at the end of the season. My mate said that this was just me reading too much into it and that the point was Debbie being silly, given that the dragon is blown up maybe 10 seconds later. He said that it shows that the state of the world is chaotic by default, and that a dragon isn't that much of a big deal. I agree that a dragon is far from a huge threat in Invincible, but it still poses a threat to the people around and so taking it out would have been the priority of most heroes.

What do you guys think about the Invincible scene in question, and what do you think it says about Nolan?